The WIAA posted the psych sheets for the Wisconsin high school sectionals this weekend. View them here. These meets will serve as a qualifier for the state meets next weekend. Sectional champions automatically qualify and the 18/12 fastest losers also qualify in Division 1/Division 2.

The seed times are all from in season times, so things will change a lot in the next two weekends when teams peak. For now, this is a good opportunity to look at where things stand headed into the championship season. We can combine the psych sheets for each division and score out the resulting hypothetical meet. WISCA has a computer poll that ranks teams based on times in the top 30 (read our coverage of the latest poll), but it uses 1-30 scoring. This has pros and cons. Scoring through 30 accounts for the potential positive effects of swimmers near the qualification line. A system scoring through 16 ranks all swimmers outside scoring range equally at 0 points. However, WISCA’s system overrates teams with lots of depth, but few top notch swimmers. Having a lot of swimmers ranked in the 10-20 range will result in a lot of points in the WISCA system, but many fewer in a top 16 scoring system like at the state meet. A top 16 system avoids this issue.

Scoring out the top 16 times from the psych sheets, Madison West leads Division 1 with 277 points over Waukesha South/Catholic Memorial who have 257. Division 2 looks less competitive as defending champions Monona Grove lead with 326 over second place Lakeland with 200.

Note that this scoring does not include diving. All divers on the psych sheet are entered at a score of “NP,” so I excluded them.

Division 1

School

Projected Points

1

Madison West

277

2

WaukeshaSouth/CatholicMemorial

257

3

Arrowhead

191

4

Madison Memorial

182

5

Middleton

172

6

Brookfield Central/East

170

7

Sauk Prairie Co-op

126

8

Marquette University

96

9

Franklin

94

10

Green Bay Southwest Co-op

84

11

Muskego

76

12

Greenfield Co-op

71

13

Verona Area/Mount Horeb

47

13

Neenah

47

15

Bay Port

41

16

West Bend East/West

33

17

Sun Prairie

28

17

D.C. Everest

28

19

Waukesha North Co-op

27

20

Menomonee Falls Co-op

25

21

Waunakee

22

21

Stevens Point

22

23

Holmen Co-op

16

24

Milwaukee King Co-op

12

25

Homestead

9

26

Waukesha West/Mukwonago

7

26

Hudson

7

28

Hartford Union/Slinger

5

29

Eau Claire Memorial/North

4

30

Kenosha Indian Trail

1

Division 1 Projected Top 20 Individual Scorers

Name

School

Projected Points

1

Lucas Farrar

Arrowhead

40

1

John Acevedo

WaukeshaSouth/CatholicMemorial

40

3

Wes Jekel

Madison West

37

3

Drew Nixdorf

Arrowhead

37

5

Lain Weaver

Madison West

35

6

Michael Linnihan

Brookfield Central/East

33

6

Ryan Linnihan

Brookfield Central/East

33

6

Ben Davis

Greenfield Co-op

33

6

Jacob Carlson

WaukeshaSouth/CatholicMemorial

33

10

Caleb Blischke

WaukeshaSouth/CatholicMemorial

32

11

Desmon Sachtjen

Sauk Prairie Co-op

31

12

Alex Wowk

Madison Memorial

30

12

Kaiser Neverman

Green Bay Southwest Co-op

30

14

Bryan Fitzgerald

West Bend East/West

29

14

Conrad Farrell

WaukeshaSouth/CatholicMemorial

29

16

Michael Draves

Middleton

28

16

Sam Kult

Brookfield Central/East

28

16

James Kostrzewa

Franklin

28

19

Roark Lundal

Madison Memorial

27

19

Jeff Wiedoff

Waukesha North Co-op

27

Division 2

School

Projected Points

1

Monona Grove

326

2

Lakeland Union

200

3

Elkhorn Area

171

4

Edgewood

161

5

Ashwaubenon

153

6

Sturgeon Bay Co-op

139

7

Baraboo

119

8

Brown Deer/Univ School of Milw

101

9

Rhinelander

69

10

River Falls

65

11

Grafton

57

12

Plymouth

56

13

DeForest

54

14

McFarland

51

14

Fort Atkinson

51

16

Tomahawk

38

17

Shorewood

33

18

Kiel/Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah

30

18

Berlin/GreenLake

30

20

Pulaski

28

21

Whitewater

27

21

Whitefish Bay

27

23

Shawano Community

23

24

Milton

20

25

Whitnall

18

26

Oregon

16

26

Chilton Co-op

16

26

Delavan-Darien

16

26

Antigo

16

30

Stoughton

15

31

Rice Lake

11

32

Cedarburg

10

32

Port Washington

10

32

Wausau East

10

35

South Milwaukee

7

36

Saint Thomas More/SaintFrancis

2

Division 2 Projected Top 20 Individual Scorers

Name

School

Projected Points

1

Ben McDade

Monona Grove

40

1

Eric Storms

Monona Grove

40

1

Max McHugh

Sturgeon Bay Co-op

40

4

Truman teDuits

Edgewood

37

4

Ben Hayes

Brown Deer/Univ School of Milw

37

6

Shane Sackett

Monona Grove

34

6

Jack Garcia

Lakeland Union

34

8

Alex Moen

Edgewood

33

9

Aidan Lohr

Baraboo

32

10

Jacob Lippiatt

Monona Grove

31

10

Brock Aune

Sturgeon Bay Co-op

31

12

Sam Ryf

Berlin/GreenLake

30

13

Josh Douberly

Monona Grove

29

13

Joe Stone

Ashwaubenon

29

13

Hunter Johnson

Elkhorn Area

29

16

Ben Ramminger

DeForest

28

16

Nick Starr

Grafton

28

16

Ben Bouchard

Pulaski

28

16

Grant Gibson

Lakeland Union

28

20

Young Liang

Whitewater

27

Since I’ve done the work to score this out, it’s pretty easy to also score out the sectional psych sheets. At sectionals diver numbers are much lower, so their points are easier to approximate. I gave all the divers a tie for 1st place in the sectional. (That means if there were 5 divers they were each given 16.4 points (20+17+16+15+14)/5=16.4). Only 3 of the 10 sectionals have more than 7 divers and the most is 14. While not perfect, this should give a reasonable approximation of diving points.